Alex North
Alex North
Alex Northwas an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth4 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
resulting
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
few musical
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
friday tuesday records
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
hero film spartacus
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.